ThirstyAffiliates Plugin: Stored Cross-Site Scripting (CVE-2026-119089)
The ThirstyAffiliates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping.
CVE search metadata
CVE search record: CVE-2026-119089. Severity: high. CVSS: 7.2. KEV: no. Product: ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin (<= 3.12.1). Brief: ThirstyAffiliates Plugin: Stored Cross-Site Scripting (CVE-2026-119089). Brief link: https://feed.craftedsignal.io/briefs/2026-10-thirstyaffiliates-xss/
Triage facts
Revision 1- Applicability
- ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin (<= 3.12.1)
- Evidence
- Unknown
- Severity
- High
- Sources
- 1 public source
- Freshness
- Revision 1Oct 31, 09:54 UTC
- Vulnerabilities
- 1 CVE
- Source quality
- A2Roughly even chance
The ThirstyAffiliates - Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin for WordPress (all versions up to and including 3.12.1) contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the 'comment' parameter. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when a user accesses an injected page. Exploitation is limited to block themes where the Comment Content block triggers the plugin's transformer, and requires one previously approved comment to facilitate the auto-approval of subsequent malicious comments.